Church Plant--Day 7 (335 Days to Launch)

God is going on before.

Today James and I met with the Senior Pastor of our church. What we encountered was more than we expected. We asked God for the unreasonable--because when God grants unreasonable requests we all know who gets the glory--it is unmistakably not us. Steven Furtick, pastor of Elevation Church, said to pray specific, measurable and unreasonable prayers. When we pray "sun stand still" prayers like Joshua there is no one to blame but God for the results. So we prayed for four things . . .

1. Leadership buy-in for the vision of reaching this community by multiplying the number of churches here
2. Agreement to meet in the next two weeks and nail down specifics of how FBC will support the church plant.
3. Resurrection of the DNA of FBC as an outward focused, kingdom-minded, church planting church.
4. An elder approved support package that only God could get the credit for.

We are pursuing those things in faith that God is going to go before us. Today we saw steps being taken on each of those four areas. Thanks for watching with us as God goes on ahead surprising us every step of the way.

Micah 2:13: One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their king will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.

Pray unreasonable prayers for us.